Movies: Luigi Allemano
- 2003

Penguins Behind Bars (2003)
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Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th 2003. The Short follows Doris Fairfeather, a female penguin who is framed for robbery by her boyfriend ...
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- 2022

The Flying Sailor (2022)
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The Flying Sailor is based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour causing the largest accidental explosion in history. Among the tragic stories of the disaster is the remarkable account of a sailor who, blown ...
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- 2005

Invasion of the Space Lobsters (2005)
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When an advanced race of giant lobsters from outer space land on Earth, no one can figure out why they've come. A complete failure to communicate on both ends leads to panic and pandemonium. Why are they here? What do they want? In this clever throwb...
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- 2011

Wild Life (2011)
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An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie....
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- 2017

No Words (2017)
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No Words is a short film about a character who is being forced, by outside sources to write a story he doesn’t want to write. He pushes back against these forces in order to be true to himself and write the words he needs to set free....
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- 2024

The Stand (2024)
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On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future. In a riveting new feature docume...
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- 2024

Maybe Elephants (2024)
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Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?...
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- 2006

A Prairie Story (2006)
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A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made...
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- 2022

Zeb's Spider (2022)
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An eight-legged force of fate spins a complex web of darkness and humour in Alicia Eisen and Sophie Jarvis’s animated short....
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- 2004

Stationery (2004)
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A woman must find paperclips for a report to be presented in the morning....
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- 2010

Interoculus (2010)
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In an infinitely vast space, a woman, a man and a fish illustrate a flow of questions about perception. Pixillation and stop-motion animation enhance audience doubts about reality in Marie Valade's whimsical and playful test of how we see and perceiv...
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- 2022

Baek-il (2022)
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The Korean legend of Ungnyeo, a bear reborn as a woman, becomes a percussive and mesmerizing riff on the themes of transformation and quarantine. Produced as part of the 13th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship....
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- 2011

The Big Swing (2011)
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The macabre tale of a child trying to overcome her fear of the swing. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship....
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- 2011

Sunday (2011)
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An imaginative boy suffers the stifling ordinariness of his family's weekly Sunday ritual....
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- 2019

XO RAD Magical (2019)
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XO Rad Magical is a personal lyrical poem about the daily struggle of living with schizophrenia. This psychedelic and hypnotic film shows that there is beauty in the brains of those who are at war with themselves. Produced as part of the 12th edition...
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- 2022

The Commute (2022)
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The distinctive three-note chime of the Toronto subway kicks off a zippy tale of bike theft and survival in an unfamiliar new town. Produced as part of the 13th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship....
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- 2008

Six: Inside Hothouse 5 (2008)
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Director Carrie Haber delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers....
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- 2016

Him (2016)
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Hand-drawn charcoal drawings movingly depict the loneliness and bewilderment of a child seeking safety in a war zone, in this timely very short animation that uses found sound to explore the powerlessness of the refugee experience. Produced as part o...
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- 2012

Flee (2012)
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A man wakes in a sea of sand dunes. He clutches a metal suitcase as if it holds something of great value. In the distance looms a distorted and inhuman city from which the man has apparently fled. An experiment in science-fiction/mystery, Flee wonder...
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- 2006

Inside the Hothouse 3 (2006)
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A look into the creative process and frenzy behind the third edition of the NFB Animation Hothouse. This zippy, mini-documentary reflects the youthful iconoclasm of the six emerging filmmakers and Jason Lee, the documentary director....
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